JavaScript Array

[tomwalters5678]

Hi guys, I would like to know how to basically retrieve a certain number of characters from the string value inside of an array. So for example.

Code:

var news = new Array();
news[0] = “Today a big thing happened that was really big, seriously big, I mean huge!”;
news[1] = “Today I saw a man. He was a man, not a women, an man, as in he was male, not female, defiantly male.”;
news[2] = “Today police discovered what appeared to be an oversized crunchy bar, just lying in the street – unopened.”;

for(var i; i < 2; i++) { document.write(news[i]); }

Where I have the "document.write" is where I would like there to be a amount of characters output limit, so for news[0] it could just be – "Today a big thing happened".

How would I go about doing this, and is it even possible with JavaScript? Or am I better off going with XML?

Thanks

-Tom

[akeenlabs]

That functionality is not build-in, but I’m not sure it’s build into XML either. Maybe I’m a little confused but a function like this would work:

Code:

function max(theString, maxCharacters){
if(theString.length <= maxCharacters){ return theString; } else { return theString.substring(0, maxCharacters); } }

So instead of just doing document.write() you’d do document.write(max(news, 10)). Is that what you were asking for?

[Stack]

Im not 100% sure what your asking for but from what it sounds like your interested in extracting a substring.

Code:

the above code would write all characters in each item from the 0 character (first character) up to (but not including) the 10th character of the strings. (PS: in a for loop that you will be incrimenting always include a value for the variable or it will throw an error and increase the number by 1 to go through an array. so if the array is 3 entries (0,1, and 2) write either i < 3 or i <= 2.
Is this what you were lookin for?

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